Senior .NET Developer

Why we're hiring:

WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world’s largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey, and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world’s most creative brands

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and mentor junior developers
• Architect, develop, and maintain applications, modules, and common functionality.
• Architect, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed software infrastructure and integration with applications and user interfaces
• Ensure performance and efficiency characteristics of platform components used with the applications.
• Perform code review of team members to learn new techniques while providing code quality review.
• Assist in analysis of interacting systems to ensure changes made to one system will not impact other systems. Work closely with the Business Analyst to ensure proper documentation of requirements.
• Prepare technical specifications and other system and programming documentation in accordance with internal standards.
• Provide knowledge transfer to Support and Operations personnel related to changes to systems.
• Work with Quality Analysts to ensure changes are thoroughly tested before release. Write unit and integration tests for new code. Assist with the diagnosis of problematic applications and system testing.
• Stay informed of advances and pertinent changes in hardware and software technologies.
• Work with the system and application product engineering groups to define new common functionality and diagnose problems

What you'll need:

• Education: completed university studies in Computer Science, Information Technology or comparable 

• Personality and Working Practice: team player, good communication skills, analytical thinking and structured 

• Experience and Knowledge:  
• 10+ years of full stack development experience – .NET/C# preferred with features such as Web API, .NET Core, and Azure Web hosting solutions
• 3+ years of React/Angular development, web services and usage of frameworks
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Proficient with API/microservice architecture development
• Proficient with HTML5, Single Page Applications, CSS, Redux, Typescript, JavaScript, and JavaScript libraries such as React.
• An understanding of and ability to use Git
• Experience with Applications Performance Monitor (APM)
• Performance optimization of .NET applications
• Database experience (SQL Server) and good knowledge in query optimization.
• Experience with distributed architectures, REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Cloud technology experience – Azure and GCP
• Good knowledge in Cybersecurity best practices
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Proficient with database technologies, relational or NoSQL
• Strong organizational skills
• Experience working in an Agile scrum-based environment
• Experience working with Azure DevOps and Git
• Media / advertising industry experience is a plus
• Qualifications: certifications or equivalent skills of 70-486, 70-480, 70-483, 98-364, AZ-900 (Engineer) and / or MCSA, MSCD (Architect) are beneficial
• Languages: very good English skills, any other language is a plus

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge? 

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.

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